Ace Attorney Anime Series
By Tayla Drago
Episode #10 - Turnabout Goodbyes: 3rd Trial
From Lotta having some clues left out – Phoenix, Cassie, and Maya have another day to prove in Edgeworth's innocence on a crime he didn't kill Robert at all 'before Manfred does it first against his original student'. Gumshoe hopes so too and for Gourdy's not real due to Larry's accident. Maya and Cassie want to do more to fix things; the next part was to question some old man who lives at the rental boat place to ask him about calling the police. With his pet parrot name Polly who knows about the 'DL-6 Incident to not forget about', something was up. I guess we'll soon find out more next for the three knock on the door, this time he was home.
Maya: Hello? Anyone home?
He was home to answer the door, only for him to call Phoenix and Maya on random names. And I'm calling him Uncle for the time being - until we learn who his real name is.
Uncle: Meg...That you?
He calls Maya 'Meg'.
Cassie: Maya's name is Meg? Huh...?
And Uncle calls Phoenix 'Keith' as well and holdin both of their hands but Cassie was confused.
Uncle: And is that you, Keith? You two finally came back with a pretty friend to tag along. Daddy's so happy. Daddy is so happy!
Okay, now this getting very confusing.
Phoenix: Meg?
Maya: Keith?
Cassie: I think this guy's sick...
Yep, very confusing.
Phoenix and Maya: Who?
Going inside for Uncle treats the three guests with some snacks and tea to make themselves feel at home, and see and hearing Polly talking very well.
Cassie: Hey, check out the parrot this guy has.
This has Polly say something to some new people.
Polly: Good morning.
Uncle: Yeah, morning.
Time: December 26
Location: Gourd Lake - Boat Rental Shop
Maya: Aw...That's such a cute parrot!
Uncle: Oh, Polly? Ain't she pretty?
Cassie: And she can talk? That's cool...
So Maya gives it a try to get Polly to say something.
Maya: Hello, Polly.
Polly: Welcome back, Meg.
Saying hi back, but calling Maya by Meg instead.
Maya: Wow! She can tell who I am!
Phoenix: Since when are you Meg?
Cassie: Maya, please don't let the other name get to you.
Still, it's cool to have a pet parrot like that to know where to go to the bathroom and move around the home as well.
Uncle: Polly knows everything. My memory's gotten worse of late. That's why I tell old Polly here everything important. What's the noodle shop's name?
Polly: The Wet Noodle!
But he works at renting boats, not owning a noodle shop.
Phoenix: Th-The Wet Noodle?
Cassie: Noodle Shop...? I thought this was a Rental Boat Shop... (I guess this guy really has problems in the head, I feel sorry for him.)
Then Maya says something else to Polly to say the words next.
Maya: And what's your name?
Polly: Polly. Polly.
Saying her name right, and the Maya asks her something else next for the bird to know by heart.
Maya: And what's the combination to that safe?
Polly: 1228. 1228.
Those four numbers reminds Cassie of something, but she couldn't put it on what it was.
Cassie: (What kind of combination numbers are those? I feel like they're important.)
Maya: Whoa, all right!
Not the best to ask a parrot about it at all.
Uncle: Hey, Polly. Watch it, will ya?
Polly: Good morning. Good morning.
He nodded when Polly says something else instead, and now it's time to question Uncle about the night of the murder.
Phoenix: By the way, sir...
Uncle: Call me "Dad." And you must know my Keith well, young lady. You think you might get married later on?
Cassie: Huh?! But we're in love and dating right now...
Like they have any other choice but to call Uncle by Dad for Phoenix to be doing.
Phoenix: D-Dad...
Uncle: What is it, Keith? I love your new lady friend already.
Phoenix: Thank you...I do love Cassie a lot. Anyways, I'd like to ask about the incident out on the lake the other day.
Uncle: Incident?
They hope half of Uncle's memories can remember something.
Cassie: This is very important.
Maya: That's right, mister!
He even tells Maya to call him Papa instead. He doesn't know they really are, huh? How sad.
Uncle: Call me "Papa."
Maya: P-Papa...
Uncle: Yes, what is it, Meg?
Cassie: We have to ask him if knows anything about the incident. You two, try making this guy talk.
Doing the best they can with the names of Uncle thinks on who they are.
Maya: Someone called the police on the night of the incident.
Phoenix: Was it you, Dad? Tell me what happened, Dad!
Trying to think, but...I think Uncle was fast asleep. Huh?
Maya: Tell us, Papa!
Having a bubble coming out of his nose to be sleeping, they weren't getting anywhere with him. Panicking, Phoenix had to wake him up.
Phoenix: Dad!
And for Cassie helps them out.
Cassie: (Give me a break...) Hey! GET YOUR ASS UP!
His bubble burst to get Uncle up again, that fast.
Polly: Good morning. Good morning.
Maya: Aw, man...
Any help for Uncle to see for him to answer them.
Cassie: Ah, how about seeing this photo here to rethink on what you might know of.
From there, Cassie shows Uncle a photo from afar where Edgeworth the murder was there on the boat on the a foggy night on the lake and the boat.
Uncle: A foggy lake, huh? How artsy.
Phoenix: It's a photo of the moment of the murder.
Getting his glasses on, to have a closer look at the photo.
Uncle: Come to think of it, I heard a loud bang from the lake early yesterday. Then I heard another one.
Phoenix: What time was this?
A problem with that is...
Uncle: I don't remember. A little while later, this boat comes back. Then a young man walked by my window.
If what Uncle was saying is true, it could be the real murderer.
Maya: That must've been the culprit!
Cassie: Yeah. (Funny, now I'm sensing a lot more than what this guy's saying. Or acting like.)
Was it true? Or is this guy just getting really old?
Phoenix: Did you see him?
Uncle: Well, sonny...
Trying to say something...and ends up falling asleep again to have Cassie and Maya staring and Phoenix...with his eyes twitching a bit. So then, let's see how Polly knows a bit 'a lot more than what they'll be hearing next'.
Maya: Let's ask Polly, then! Could you tell us anything else? Have we forgotten anything?
Like anything was happening for them.
Cassie: Talk about a dead end...
Phoenix: Come on, Cassie. Let's go, Maya.
Seems like Polly didn't say anything there.
Maya: It didn't work, huh?
However, Polly does say something to catch them all by surprise.
Polly: Don't forget DL-6! Don't forget DL-6!
Now this changes everything.
Phoenix: What?
Cassie: No way! (Polly just said the DL-6 Incident!)
Maya: Polly, what did you just say?
And the parrot kept on saying it again and again.
Polly: Don't forget DL-6! Don't forget DL-6!
Might be very important, huh? And so, Phoenix, Cassie, and Maya go back to the police department to try finding some more clues to prove in Edgeworth's innocence by any means.
Time: December 26
Location: Police Department
Cassie: This is so weird. Polly knows something but Uncle doesn't?
Maya: Uncle?
Well, they didn't know the old man's name yet.
Cassie: What? I had to call him something until we know his real name. And yet, it was so weird!
Phoenix: I agree. Why would the parrot have known about that?
Cassie: It makes me want to be an animal whispers to solve murder mysteries.
Yeah...So many things still needs to be solved, even what Polly just said.
Maya: The DL-6 Incident...
Phoenix: (Was that old man also involved in the incident fifteen years ago?)
While getting to the station, the three see Manfred just passing by to get a box filled with something to get in his limbo and take off in a hurry. Well, there he goes.
Cassie: Was that...?
Phoenix: von Karma?
Weird, but they still need to work for they each have their own tasks at hand. As for Maya to be staring at Cassie to be smiling out of nowhere.
Cassie: Why are you staring at me like that?
Maya: Hey Cassie, answer me this...How are you and Nick doing? You two are dating right...? That means you're in love.
So true, they are to have Cassie blushing.
Cassie: Hey! I mean we are...It should be obvious.
Maya: Aaaaaaw! Adorable...I knew you two would go out and fall in love and work at the same time! Nick loves you a lot.
Hugging Cassie and spinning her around in a circle.
Cassie: I do. He understands me and he's very kind. I love a man who cares for others, to also be silly and serious on his job.
Maya: Then keep your happiness going with him. I'm here as your supporter when it comes to love.
Cassie: Thanks, Maya.
Some girl time to understand each other to stay strong and never give up, to also be happy in love with someone. Entering inside to meet up with Gumshoe again in the Criminal Affairs office to ask for some clues they can get, anything at all.
Gumshoe: Oh, you came?
He was happy seeing them again to help them out for Edgeworth's sake.
Maya: Detective Gumtree!
Cassie: Hey, Mr. Detective.
Phoenix: How's the investigation going?
Not good so far to not find anything at all.
Gumshoe: It's going nowhere, pal. Kid. In the briefing, they still believed Mr. Edgeworth was the culprit.
Other really do hate Edgeworth a lot, whether he's innocent or not.
Maya: Wasn't he cleared of suspicion?
Gumshoe: We found a motive, pal.
With one name of the case which connects to Edgeworth himself.
Phoenix: The DL-6 Incident?
Gumshoe: You knew?
Cassie: On what we've learned about so far.
And so much more if this isn't solved yet.
Gumshoe: I see...The victim, Hammond, was the defense attorney in that trial.
Phoenix: Fifteen years ago, Edgeworth's father was murdered. Hammond was the one who defended the accused, proving him not guilty.
For Robert to get the murderer freedom to winning the trial to be fixed, I guess that's one clue left out. Still, Edgeworth wouldn't murder someone for it!
Gumshoe: The brass believes that Mr. Edgeworth killed him for revenge.
Cassie: And with this, Edgeworth will lose everything forever. Really bad here.
Phoenix: Incidentally, I came here to take a look at the DL-6 case files.
Cassie: We thought it could find something important.
If this type of clue to find, it was their only shot they can do.
Gumshoe: Don't tell me you two suspect him, too?
Phoenix: No.
You got the wrong idea, pal.
Cassie: Were you even listen to us?!
Gumshoe: My bad...
Phoenix: She meant this..."We" just think that the incident holds the key to this case.
Now he gets it to see what Gumshoe can find for them.
Gumshoe: Got it, pal. I'll bring the files right away.
Waiting for Gumshoe to come back with the files, the other three waited.
Phoenix: What a case.
Cassie: Tell me about it, Phoenix. But we can do this.
This has Maya smiling for them to be holding hands.
Phoenix: I know we will, Cassie. I'm always here for you.
Cassie: Same here, you mean a lot to me.
Embrace of their love to look like they were about to kiss, but...
Gumshoe: That's weird.
He comes back to interrupt them. Thanks a lot, Gumshoe!
Maya: Hey!
Gumshoe: What? What did I do?
More of their love later on.
Cassie and Phoenix: Nothing!
Gumshoe: Right...Apparently, Mr. von Karma took all the DL-6 case files over to the prosecutor's office just now.
That's not good at all.
Cassie: He what!? (Damn you, Manfred!)
Gumshoe: He took all the evidence, but we have copies of the paperwork.
It's better than nothing for Gumshoe to allow for them to use.
Phoenix: Thanks.
Cassie: Mr. Detective, you're the best!
Hugging him for Gumshoe is glad to help out
Gumshoe: In return, win tomorrow's trial, no matter what! Kid, you can do this! And no matter what to try to win this, pal!
A bit too close to say it in front of someone's face, huh?
Phoenix: Y-You're too close, pal.
Cassie: Say it, don't spray it. Let's see what we can get for tomorrow then.
She moves Gumshoe away from Phoenix's personal space. For Phoenix, Maya, and Cassie will take anything they can from Gumshoe to get their answers in the second day of tomorrow's trial. The next day...it arrives for everyone gets into a long line to get inside to see if Edgeworth's guilty or not guilty 'including Larry to watch the whole thing'; for the three to have something big as much as they can to save Edgeworth with before Manfred can stop them.
Time: December 27, 10 AM
Location: District Court-Courtroom No. 3
Hitting the gavel for the Judge to be doing, it begins again.
*ALL RISE!*
Judge: Court is now back in session for the trial of Mr. Miles Edgeworth.
From Phoenix and Cassie were ready, so was Manfred 'with another dirty trick in mind', and all of this to save Edgeworth's innocence by any means. And first off, Manfred speaks up.
Manfred: The prosecution would like to call its witness to the stand.
Cassie: (He must mean Uncle to be questioned.) Phoenix, stay on guard.
Going on stands for Uncle...Ah, is he willing to answer some questions? I mean he was sleeping while standing up again.
Witness - ? (Uncle)
Maya: It's the old man from yesterday.
Phoenix: Cassie's right, we have to be on our guard here.
Waking up for Uncle's bubble burst again to wake up.
Manfred: Witness, state your profession.
Uncle: I, uh, run a noddle shop at Gourd Lake...And I, er, also rent boats.
Wait...That's it?
Manfred: Very well. Now testify.
Yeah, a person has to give up out his name and he doesn't remember that either?
Judge: Ah, wait. The witness will state his name.
Cassie: It's part of the court rules, right? (Unless he has forgotten, but my senses says otherwise.)
Uncle: Well, um...I'm not really sure.
And so the prosecutor lawyer explains everything.
Manfred: Your Honor, the witness does not remember anything beyond the last few years. Ergo, he cannot recall his own name.
Judge: Amnesia?
This was kind of not good on Phoenix and Cassie's ends at all.
Phoenix: Please wait. How can he testify in that state?
Cassie: I agree. Uncle for which I'm calling him for now has some brain problems.
Like Manfred cared, only to snap his fingers.
Manfred: The incident in question occurred only three days ago. There is no problem. You're good at solving murder mysteries, Ms. Freeman. Can you not?
Judge: Right, no problem at all.
He just had to agree with this guy, doesn't he? The poor simple judge.
Phoenix: (He really is a pushover!)
Placing her head down to get really mad on what Manfred was doing so much worse for them.
Cassie: My god, I hate this friggin' guy...!
Well, no use arguing to still give it their all to get something out of Uncle.
Witness Testimony
Uncle: It was the night of the 24th, just after midnight, ayup. I was lying down in my room when I heard a loud bang.
Testimony
Shows a flashback on what Uncle heard and then see from outside his rental boat shop. From the two men on the boat, gun shots going off, and then on the lake side hours later to see Edgeworth walking away. No...!
Uncle: When I looked out the window, I saw a boat just a' floating on the lake. Then I heard another bang. A while later, the boat returned to shore, and a man walked by my window. That's about all I saw.
Hmm...He told the same story the other three since yesterday to hear the whole thing.
Phoenix: (The same as we heard yesterday...)
Cassie: The same story we all heard will get is anywhere how...?
Well they have to think of something.
Judge: Defense and Ms. Freeman, both of you may begin your cross-examination.
They might as well, maybe Uncle will slip up for Phoenix and Cassie to finally get the answers they really need.
Phoenix: Are you sure you heard the gunshots after midnight?
And...he's sleeping again for the Judge hitting his gavel wakes him up.
Judge: Witness!
Cassie: Thank you!
It sure got him waking up again.
Uncle: Pretty sure, ayup.
And he didn't remember, so all of a sudden he does now. It doesn't make any sense.
Cassie: Seriously, Uncle?
Phoenix: But when Cassie and spoke to you yesterday, you said you didn't remember. How are you so sure about it now?
It can't just happen out of nowhere, no! Impossible!
Uncle: I remembered it while talking to the prosecutor.
Phoenix: Wouldn't that mean Mr. von Karma manipulated your testimony?
Cassie: He made you talk of made up lies!
I doubt he'll admit it in public though.
Manfred: *OBJECTION!* That is a baseless accusation, kid. And me, cheat? Where's your proof, dearie? If you could get one out of me, then I would surrender in seconds, but that's not happening anytime soon.
Was he mocking them? Sadly, the Judge agrees to this.
Judge: Objection sustained.
Anything else to ask about next? This leaves for Cassie to give Manfred the raspberry.
Cassie: He thinks he knows my line of work, doesn't he? What a load of crap!
Phoenix: I'll change my question. Where was the gunfire coming from?
Uncle: From the lake. When I heard a bang, I looked out the window and saw the shape of the boat. And then I heard another bang...
This was getting bad to worse now...
Manfred: It was the sound of gunfire, correct?
Uncle: That's right, ayup.
Asking another question next...
Phoenix: Who was in the boat at the time?
Uncle: Keith...
Phoenix: What is it?
Uncle: Why are you acting like an attorney with your lady friend?
Now wasn't the time to place house!
Phoenix: Please answer the question!
Cassie: This is a life or death situation here!
He tries to recall the best he could.
Uncle: Well, it as pretty far away, and it was all covered in fog...
Phoenix: So you didn't see them clearly?
Uncle: Ayup...at the time, that is.
And what does that part even mean?
Phoenix: (At the time?)
Cassie: Do really think it was Edgeworth? (Please don't be him...!)
Again, this was getting pretty bad.
Manfred: Later, someone passed by the window of the boat shack. Correct?
Uncle: Yeah, it was the murderer.
Judge: Did you see his face?
That was a big yes to Uncle's words.
Uncle: Yeah, I did.
Now Uncle had to say it was all Edgeworth's doing, but it really wasn't.
Cassie: No!
Phoenix: What? Y-You saw him?
This has Manfred smirking all wicked-like and all, for Uncle told Phoenix and Cassie about it yesterday. Yeah right!
Uncle: I told you this yesterday, Keith.
Cassie: No, otherwise we wouldn't be questioning you like this, Uncle. I mean come on!
Phoenix: And that's news to me too!
Sadly, Uncle points out to Edgeworth for it was him to see on that night. Sitting on the witness chair as well to take all this crap.
Uncle: It was him. He's the one I saw.
Shocking for Phoenix, Maya, and Cassie to all gasp of the bad news did get much worse.
Manfred: The defendant, Miles Edgeworth. Are you certain?
Uncle: Yeah...It was this Edgy-boy!
Yelling about it, Uncle then falls down to be sleeping again. Every gasp in the room to hear it loud and clear 'along with lots of cops carrying him to the waiting room' now. This was really bad for Phoenix and Cassie have nothing to prove in Edgeworth's innocent. Leaving the Judge to his gavel to calm everyone down.
Judge: Order! Order in the court! The testimony just now is decisive evidence that proves the defendant's guilt-
Cassie: Phoenix! Do something! We can't let it end like this!
But what can any of them do?
Phoenix: Please wait, Your Honor! We already proved that my client didn't fire that gun! The murderer fired with his left hand, but the fingerprints on the gun were from the defendant's right hand!
Like this will get pass Manfred to win this trial again.
Manfred: *OBJECTION!* That is easily explainable. He could have worn gloves during the act and carelessly left his prints on it later. That is probably what happened.
But can that really happened? Maybe...?
Phoenix: N-No way.
Cassie: That can't be true! Edgeworth's not even left handed.
Manfred: Everything is crystal clear now. The defendant is guilty!
This can't change things around so soon.
Phoenix: But the witness could be mistaken...
Manfred: Do any of you have any evidence proving that?
Phoenix: W-Well...
Cassie: Grrr...! We would've to give us a chance to speak if you haven't rush so much to end this trial quickly!
Hate to be wrong on some of the things, he tells it like it is.
Manfred: I know you follow the rules, unlike your so call boyfriend. In the court of law, the evidence tells all. How have you not realized this basic fact, you damned amateur?
Hitting his hand to make a fist and slamming the table, creating a powerful gust of wind hits Phoenix to wall really hard.
Cassie: Phoenix! I got you.
That had to hurt.
Manfred: Judge, I demand you declare the verdict.
Phoenix: Please wait!
Cassie: Don't do it! (Edgeworth!)
But sad enough, he does it anyways.
Judge: I shall hereby hand down the verdict for Mr. Miles Edgeworth. Guilty.
GUILTY!
He straight up says it...meaning Phoenix, Cassie, and Maya failed to save Edgeworth to all come an bad end like this. Sitting in silence for Edgeworth himself and every sat in silent as well, this was bad for Phoenix and Cassie might've loss.
Cassie: Damn it!
Phoenix: (It's over?)
That Manfred guy laughs has no right to smirk like this...All might be the end, but...someone speaks up to change things around to not have Edgeworth found guilty at all in the last second.
?: Wait a damn second!
Jumping out of his seat to come to the center of room, to get everyone by surprise. Could it be...?
Judge: Wh-Who was that just now?
Cassie: It's Larry Butz!
In comes...Larry?! He had something to say to hopefully change everything around for good.
Larry: Me! Larry Man!
Sounding like an echo in the room, really dude...? As if Manfred will allow for this to snapping his fingers.
Manfred: Judge. You've already given your verdict. Throw that fool out.
Like he'll go away that easily.
Larry: Hold up! Listening to you people made me remember...I was there by the lake on the night of the murder.
For Larry to be saying this, then it must be true to surprise Phoenix, Maya, Cassie, and everyone else in the court room by luck.
Cassie: No way...! Really?! (Then this changes everything!)
Larry: The murder occurred on Christmas Eve, right? I was there, and I heard it.
Judge: Heard what?
Larry: The gunshot, of course.
Is that really true?!
Judge: Wh-What?
Larry: The old man's testimony didn't quite sit right with me. So I can't just sit here and let you call Edgey a murderer.
Another friend to aid someone like Edgeworth, same with Phoenix too.
Manfred: The verdict has been decided. I call for adjournment.
Not this time, pal!
Judge: One moment...Did you really hear gunfire on the night of the murder?
Larry: Yeah. Clearly, like bang!
Then what were the defense team's waiting for? It was time to put Larry's testimony to good use.
Maya: This is it, Nick! Cassie! Larry's given us one final chance at this!
Cassie: With his help, we can turn things around.
And this might for Phoenix says so to the Judge himself.
Phoenix: Your Honor! If there is another witness, it is our duty to hear him speak!
Manfred: A waste of time! The verdict cannot be overturned!
Yeah, not this time for the Judge has something to say.
Judge: Ms. Freeman...
Cassie: Ah, yes! If we hear from Larry's testimony to give us something to save Edgeworth's freedom, then I say we give it a try. Please I can sense something to be a big clue he thought of to be right. (I can just feel it. And I can't believe I'm saying this, but...please don't screw this one up Larry, please!)
Then it's been decided.
Judge: Then allow me to state my opinion. In all court proceedings, it is our duty to prevent an inaccurate verdict. Therefore, we must examine every piece of evidence and listen to each witness!
Manfred: What?
Judge: I withdraw my previous verdict of "guilty"! Are we clear?
Ha! Manfred's perfection went down the toilet!
Cassie: Yea! We can have a re-do!
Judge: Testify to the court about what you saw on the night of the murder.
This guy was ready for anything for Larry to do his best.
Larry: You got it!
Phoenix: (We're counting on you, Larry.)
Larry: Hey, Cassie-Poo, watch me save the day.
Getting to the stands to speak up...
Cassie: Yeah thanks, just get over there and tell us everything. (Here goes nothing.)
Witness Testimony
Here we go then! Manfred goes along with it, while Cassie and Phoenix get their answers out of Larry Butz's testimony to prove in Edgeworth's innocence for good this time.
Larry: That night, I was in a boat out on the lake. I was looking for the Steel Samurai.
The Judge only take Larry's words a bit differently by mistake of a character made up on TV, he meant the balloon stand.
Judge: The Steel Samurai?
So they told the real part for him.
Cassie: It's not the character itself to be real, Your Honor.
Phoenix: The mascot for the witness's food stall.
Cassie: Which sold some tasty Samurai Buns of all flavors.
The best ones for it to show the sign banner of the name itself.
Phoenix: It's actually a big, inflatable balloon. He apparently sent it flying out into the lake, along with the an air tank.
That he did which almost made it look like the Gourdy sea monster, nice going dude.
Larry: So I went, uh, looking for it.
Testimony
Too shy to admit it, huh? From him to be on the boat to finally finding the balloon in the lake for Larry looked all night for it. Thought to hear some gun shots, it look like in the flashback for Larry to have headphones over his ears.
Larry: I finally found it and returned the boat at the dock. That's when I heard this bang. Naturally, I looked out over the lake. But I didn't see a boat.
And I guess that was it. But does it all mean something...?
Judge: You only heard one bang?
Larry: Right-o. After that, I dragged the Steel Samurai back to the stall.
And now comes the cross-examination time. With any luck for Phoenix and Cassie to do, that is. Hitting the gavel to see what they can get out of Larry's testimony.
Judge: Your cross-examination, defense and Ms. Freeman.
But there was one big problem...
Cassie: OK, we'll try... (Crap, we're dead.)
Phoenix: (If Cassie and I don't find a new lead here, the trial will end this time for sure.) Get ready, Cassie.
Cassie: Ah, okay. I guess we can try to get something good from Larry's testimony.
It was time to cross-examination with Larry Butz himself in order to prove in Edgeworth's innocence.
Phoenix: When did you hear the noise?
Thinking really hard on this one...
Larry: Oh, it was around 11:00 when I went out in the boat, and I was out searching for about an hour...I guess I heard the gunshot at around midnight.
Manfred: That matches the other witness testimonies. This is pointless.
Hey, he's doing his best to explain Larry's side of the story.
Larry: Get off your high horse, man!
His snapping fingers hits Larry to the head pretty hard, good luck getting through those things.
Cassie: Next question please... (I feel your pain a little.)
Phoenix: But when he heard the shot, there wasn't a boat with the victim and the defendant on the lake. Isn't that right, Larry?
Getting back up, the ask Larry about it and he said yes.
Larry: Th-That's right! Isn't it weird?
Even the Judge finds this to be very strange alright.
Judge: That is quite strange.
Maya: Besides, you only heard one shot, right?
He seems to be on the right track for them so far.
Larry: Yeah. A loud bang!
Still, from Lotta and Uncle's case almost sounds the same...
Manfred: Two witness ave already testified that they heard two gunshots. The man's testimony is hogwash!
Ouch...! Talk about getting burned hard.
Larry: Hogwash? What do you mean, you idiot?!
He snaps his fingers at Larry's head again.
Cassie: Stop talking to Manfred or you'll get hurt even more, Larry! Seriously...
Phoenix: Larry, you sure you only heard one shot that night?
Getting back up to had something else to add to it.
Larry: W-Well, uh...
Phoenix: Make it clear, dude!
Larry: What's with that casual way of talking to me?! I'm a witness, man! Your guest of honor!
Now he tells his friend.
Cassie: Phoenix, relax. Just do as Larry says and something will come up.
Almost getting mad, Phoenix calms down 'thanks to Cassie's help' to calmly asking Larry about this question again.
Phoenix: Got it, Cassie, thank you. Very well, witness...Are you absolutely sure you only heard one gunshot that night?
Larry: Well, to tell ya the truth, I'm not sure.
Great, this changes things around again.
Cassie: The hell!?
Larry: Don't get mad at me, Cassie-Poo! Nicky already knows I always listen to the radio at night...
Nope, this was news to Phoenix to hear about Larry doing so.
Phoenix: No, I don't.
Maya: Wait, the radio?
Cassie: What radio...? (Is he going to screw up again?)
As I said from the flashback of Larry on the boat, he did have headphones over his head and ears.
Larry: Yeah, booming loud on my headphones! I was listening to 'Auralia's Midnight Lovey-Dovey Rendezvous'!
Great! So he didn't hear gun shots at all.
Phoenix: What?!
Now Larry just made a complete idiot out of himself and doing the music listening noises in public.
Cassie: Larry, COME ON! This is serious!
Not to Manfred to snap his fingers out again.
Manfred: What a farce.
Then Larry said the lines from the radio show, which might change things around for the better this time. But sounded silly to a girl's voice when he said the radio DJ's line.
Larry: "Hey, it's almost Christmas! All you lone wolves, your aural lover, Auralia, wishes you a Merry Christmas!"
For Phoenix and Maya couldn't believe in all of this, something does Cassie's attention, or has it...?
Cassie: Huh?
Manfred: I have had enough! Judge, your verdict. Now.
But hurry it up, it'll end badly with no more chances.
Judge: R-Right...
What's going to happen next?
Phoenix: (I have to get something from his testimony. For me and Cassie have to keep on going. What do I do? What can we both do?)
Still thinking on Cassie's end, they might just have an answer yet on what Mia said to Phoenix and Cassie when they were working together...
Mia: The evidence knows the truth. If you ask it from the bottom of your heart, it will answer you.
End of flashback...So from the murder weapon, the bullet from the dead victim, and the photos of the two men on the boat in the lake. And then, it comes together.
Phoenix: (The evidence...)
First it gets to Cassie to figure it all out.
Cassie: The time... (What Larry just quoted!)
And so has Phoenix too.
Phoenix: (That's right!)
What Lotta also said as well from yesterday in trial.
Lotta: It was Christmas Eve, just after midnight, I reckon.
Now they got it! Looking at each other, both Phoenix and Cassie know what to do now.
Phoenix: (That's it!) Cassie!
Cassie: Right, I'm thinking the same thing to, Phoenix. We got our answer!
And hurry it up and speak before the Judge hits his gavel.
Judge: That ends this trial-
But they both stop the Judge from ending this too soon.
Phoenix and Cassie: *OBJECTION!*
This was their chance, it was now or never.
Cassie: Hold it, Larry! We got something to say to you.
Larry: Your phone number?
Cassie: Huh?! No!
Phoenix: Larry, she's with me! Anyways, this is what we wanted to ask you. Repeat the words you heard when the gunshot went off!
He tries to remember what he just said.
Larry: What my aural lover, Auralia, said?
Phoenix: Yeah, what Auralia said!
This must be the big clue.
Cassie: Please repeat what you just said on what this DJ said on the radio show!
And so, he says it again to sound weirder in the voice he does.
Larry: Sure. "Hey, it's almost Christmas! All you lone wolves-"
That's the one!
Phoenix: *HOLD IT!*
Cassie: *GOT YOU NOW!* (Thank you, Larry!)
Phoenix: Your Honor, did you hear what the witness just said?
Judge: Wh-What was it, again?
It was the art to be from Christmas Eve and then to Christmas Day at midnight.
Phoenix: Right at the moment he heard the gunshot, the radio DJ said, "It's almost Christmas."
Cassie: So in other words, it wasn't Christmas yet!
This surprised the Judge and not even Manfred wasn't aware of this part at all.
Judge: Ah!
Phoenix: But according to the two previous statements, the gunshots were fired after midnight! This photograph is irrefutable proof!
Showing the far away photo in court next, it does make sense.
Cassie: It when off to hear it well from the microphone off of Lotta's camera and took the shot.
Judge: Yes, when the camera reacted to the gun and took the picture, it was 12:10 AM on December 25th.
Phoenix: There's a clear time difference!
Seems like it, but Manfred didn't see any proof on it at all.
Manfred: Objection! The witness is plainly mistaken!
I doubt Larry was on this statement.
Larry: Say what?
Cassie: As if, Manfred! So shut up and listen!
No kidding, please stop...
Phoenix: He's not mistaken, Your Honor. Lotta Hart's camera, which was set to trigger on loud noises took another picture that night.
Judge: But it doesn't show anything.
Phoenix: Look at the back.
Turning the photo on the back side, to say on when it was taken - at "12/24 PM 11:50".
Judge: It says on December the 24 at 11:50 PM.
Cassie: *BINGO!* Here's to prove in the photo on what date and time it was taken.
Looking at it carefully, Maya understands it first.
Maya: Oh, I get it!
Cassie: It says it all on the back side of the photograph thanks to Lotta's help.
Hey, she did give it to them for good reasons why. And for Manfred to get mad was priceless.
Phoenix: That's right. Mr. Butz did hear a gunshot. But he heard it twenty minutes before the other witnesses.
Manfred: That is ridiculous!
Oh, like his yelling will make them stop now.
Cassie: And why is it, Manfred? Huh? (This is too priceless.)
Judge: Did one or more of the witnesses have the time wrong?
There was a huge differences.
Phoenix: No. Ms. hart's camera took a picture at 12:10 AM, too. That means three shots were fired that night. One at 11:50 PM. And two at 12:10 AM.
Cassie: It did one and the other two at the same time with more gun shots going off.
Seems like it, but Manfred slams his hands on the table to say so otherwise.
Manfred: Oh, please. That man probably sneezed and triggered the camera.
Cassie: I doubt it'll go off unless you were close to the microphone.
True, it wouldn't for even Larry even says so.
Larry: I did not! But I did yawn and fart.
Hearing a farting sounds to only think it was a bit gross for him to do.
Cassie: Ew, Larry! Come on!
Manfred: Regardless, this evidence isn't enough to overturn the verdict. End these proceedings at once!
Like hell they were going to end this. Thanks to Larry's help 'and some luck', Phoenix and Cassie have another chance yet
Judge: Does the defense and Ms. Freeman have any objections?
Just one thing to say about Edgeworth's who's not a murderer.
Phoenix: The defendant really is innocent.
Cassie: I agree with my boyfriend.
Shocking to the Judge and Manfred to hear, there was a good reason why too.
Phoenix: Wait...! Cassie, you really love me as your boyfriend?!
Cassie: Of course I do, Phoenix, you mean so much to me.
This has Phoenix having hearts floating around him to love Cassie as well, and now working together to say why Edgeworth's innocent.
Phoenix: You're the best! Right, why both Cassie and I think Edgeworth's not guilty...We've learned the truth behind this case. The evidence cleared it all up for us.
Manfred: Cleared what up?
Well here's your answer, prosecutor lawyer.
Cassie: It was all a setup to frame the defendant. Phoenix, please explain.
And so he does from the night on Christmas even to be dark and foggy at the park where the lake was...From three shots went off, from the first two - only for the victim fell into the lake in front of Edgeworth just like that. And without hm knowing about it, Edgeworth pick up the murder weapon with his hand.
Phoenix: Ten minutes after midnight, gunshots were heard from the boat on the lake. One shot. And another. And then, the victim fell into the lake, leaving the defendant, Miles Edgeworth, alone on the boat.
All to be a big set up alright.
Manfred: The victim was shot from a meter or so away. Only the defendant could have done it!
Cassie: Or so you thought, but Edgeworth didn't do anything!
You got that right he didn't.
Phoenix: But that's only if we assume the victim was shot at this time.
A lot more to say on the photo of Edgeworth the the person who was Robert, but the killer who murder him.
Judge: What do you mean? Doesn't this photograph prove when the murder was committed?
Phoenix: There was another gunshot, though. At 11:50 PM. It was the shot that this witness heard. And it was the shot that took Hammond's life.
So in other words, Larry as lucky to hear the first gunshot to go off - from which this murder Robert off of the lake side of the park.
Manfred: Don't be stupid. The photo doesn't even show a boat on the lake!
Cassie: Because it wasn't at the lake.
Yep, for it wasn't there but else where...
Phoenix: Yes, that means Hammond was murdered somewhere else.
Others to be question themselves about it changes everything now. From the empty photo, to showing the further away one again.
Manfred: Then who are these two on the boat?
Phoenix: Of course, it was the defendant and the murderer who framed him!
Others in the room to be very shock, the Judge hits his gavel to hear more on who the real murderer is.
Judge: Order! Framed? Explain further.
Cassie: Well, Robert meant with someone he thought it was Edgeworth, but it was the murderer who set him up. On the park side, he was then shot on what Larry heard.
From the murderer killed Robert was easy with the murder weapon with his left hand.
Phoenix: Cassie's right. After the murderer killed Hammond at 11:50 PM, he wore his coat and assumed his disguise to meet the defendant, whom he'd summoned to the lake beforehand.
Cassie: Then Edgeworth thought he was going to meet with Robert, but it was the murderer dress up like him to use his gun to point it out, and bang! Missed two times as an act to then swimming away to look like he was killed. Getting to shore, and he switch the dead body of Robert's to make it look like Edgeworth murder the guy.
What they were getting at was true, the way Cassie knew how it worked - and the rest was Phoenix who explain the rest about it in his own words.
Phoenix: The two of them set out on a boat. And then, the murderer fired two shots on the boat just as Cassie described on how it was all done. The first was fired to make anyone near the lake look at the boat.
Which was when Lotta's camera went off.
Cassie: He probably fired into the water.
Phoenix: Once he'd grabbed their attention, he fired the second shot. Due to the fog, anyone looking at a distance wouldn't be able to tell who'd fired.
Meaning these things - the killer murder Robert, then on the boat with Edgeworth to miss firing off the gun twice in the waters...then falling down to have Edgeworth left on the boat confused.
Cassie: From the first fire was Robert being killed for Larry to hear a few minutes before Christmas Day. The second and third on was an act and for Lotta's camera to go off. Get it now?
Seems like it to put all of the pieces together...
Judge: Th-Then the shooter was...
Phoenix: Not Edgeworth...But the real murderer, disguised as the victim!
Does it all making sense now?
Maya: So that's what happened at 12:10 AM!
Even this comes to a even bigger surprise to Edgeworth, but he gets it now.
Cassie: *BINGO!*
Phoenix: The murderer pretended to be shot and jumped into the lake. To someone watching from the shore, it would appear that a murder had taken place before them. They would think they saw Miles Edgeworth, who'd been left on the boat, murder the man with him.
And from picking up the gun without thinking was a perfect set up.
Edgeworth: At the time, I couldn't understand what had happened. Left alone on the boat, I picked up the pistol in front of me without thinking.
He was shaking in fear when he was holding the murder weapon.
Phoenix: The murder then swam back to shore, put the coat on the corpse, and threw it into the lake. It was all done to frame Miles Edgeworth for murder.
Like in a movie set, this was in real life to set Edgeworth up on everything up to this point.
Maya: Everything was an act?
Cassie: If it's true to have something to do with the DL-6 Incident, then Robert wasn't a good lawyer at all. He was a cheapskates who wanted fame and money!
Sounds about right, leaving Manfred to ask a question next with him snapping his fingers.
Manfred: If you are this confident, then I assume you and Ms. Freeman know the murderer's name?
Phoenix: No, we don't know his name.
Manfred: What?
Hard to hear the answer, for they know the man but not his real name yet.
Cassie: Ahem...Wait for it.
Phoenix: I don't know and nor does Cassie because he never told us.
A big twist there for Maya already knows and the Judge, it has to be Uncle at the real killer.
Maya: What?
Judge: Y-You don't mean...
Cassie: *GOT YOU NOW!* It's the boat rental guy - the mysterious Uncle himself!
Then they have to question Uncle again at once.
Phoenix: Please call to the stand again. the caretaker of the boat shop!
Well before they could, a Bailiff 'or a cop' comes running out to the courtroom to give out some bad news. A really big one at that.
Bailiff: Big Trouble, Your Honor! The witness from earlier has disappeared!
Judge: What?
Bailiff: He seems to have fled!
A big shock for others to hear to have a mental killer on the loose, for the Judge tells the cops to find him for the final day of the trial tomorrow.
Judge: Order! Order!
And here's the thing on the third and the final day to solve the murder case, or else.
Cassie: (If we don't solve this by tomorrow...Edgeworth will be in jail for good. We have to save him!)
Phoenix: (What is going on?)
How will it turn out? More next time...As Larry Butz ends things off to say something during this crises.
Larry: Ah, I did good right? Can I got home now? Nick. Cassie-Poo. Maya. I leave the rest to saving Edgey by tomorrow. I guess...So, bye.
Well, he did help them out so give the guy some credit.